Our journey with our self-worth is a mix of fascinating, intensely painful and jubilant.
Survival is vital.
As I've gotten older I've had to come to terms with certain changes. I was always the 'guy that never ages' with abs etc to everybody else up to a couple of years ago, but when you lose an organ and you're in your mid 40's & your body starts to change, you either have to accept what you can't change and change what you can, even if it's a lot harder to do than it used to be, or accept all of the change.
Aging and body deterioration are great ego workshops.
That being said, we often exaggerate the worst self-perception in our own minds.
Many things other people don't even notice most of the time, because they're worried about what everybody else is thinking about them. Lol.
Great thought-provoking post. Bless ya
Thank you for stopping by this post, its an oldie but a goodie. We are our own worse enemies when it comes to self-viewing. But body changes after surgery is always hard to deal with especially when you never return to the full health you had.
Yeah, like the old idiom “change what you can, accept what you can’t change and hope to have the wisdom to tell the difference.”
My main struggle is with changing the new bad habits that formed after surgery, as well as dealing with the limitation on what my body is capable of compared with before.